About Michael Berkens

Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which owns around 80K domain names and whose retail site is at MostWantedDomains.com. Michael is also a Director of RightoftheDot.com which is a consultant in the new gTLD space and a broker of super premium domains. Michael Is also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest at #Internetofficial

Although the connection may seem like an obvious one, I
don’t think that Google will offer the public (or more likely,
businesses) free domains under the “.free” name…

After all, unless you’re a biz who is actually offering a product
or service that is free, who is going to want a domain name
that ends in .free?!

It is much more likely that they will use it for themselves,
to offer service types that traditionally have a very low price
point, or are widely accepted to be ‘free’. They can then brand
their own services on a variety of derivative names.. e.g.
ebooks.free, and offer them to users for free.

Such a model would make sense for Google, and will allow
them to capture more people, and on a different level.

Does the sale mean, it’s a bad economy time for dot.tk?
I do agree with the second most largest ccTLD out of there, but how many domains are actually paid registration? It is a gbig difference between other ccTLDs like .de which are all paid registration.
I’ve also noticed there are sites that have banned .tk domains due to spamming. My question is why invest $1k for a random one letter domain with .tk, a ccTLD spammed all over the internet and always looked as a free ccTLD, when the current market price for one letter domains is about $1k.
I was going to bid on a few L.tk and LL.tk domains, but when I saw the reserved priced, I simply laughed.